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Boeing Wins $30 Million Small Diameter Bomb 1 Weapon System Contract

September 19, 2017 @ 01:50 AM

Boeing has won a $30 million modification contract to continue to provide life cycle support efforts, such as ancillary engineering and technical, test, production, logistical support for the Small Diameter Bomb I weapon system. The modification increases the existing contract's maximum ceiling value from $80 million to $110 million, the US department of Defense said in a statement Monday
Russia Begins Deliveries Of MiG-29 Fighter Jets To Egypt

September 12, 2017 @ 11:03 AM

Russia confirms signing of a contract for 50 MiG-29 fighter jets with Egypt and has also begun the deliveries, TASS reports. "Yes, the contract has been signed and the deliveries have started, some fighter jets have been already sent to Egypt
Russia's Most Lethal Helicopter Ever, The KA-52 Aligator To Enter Operational Service

September 11, 2017 @ 08:40 AM

The Russian Defense Ministry will be receiving the first consignment of Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters and will enter operational service in 2017. The manufacturing of the helicopters is strictly in compliance with the production schedule, said Russian Helicopters CEO Andrey Boginsky
VOP CZ, NIMR Showcase Ajban 440A At 24th International Defence Exhibition MSPO

September 8, 2017 @ 12:53 PM

Czech Republic's VOP CZ and NIMR Automotive have brought their latest collaborative military vehicle project NIMR 440N, to the 24th International Defence Exhibition MSPO. NATO compliant 4x4 protected vehicle NIMR 440N has undergone a range of modifications to enable the vehicle to fully perform in cold weather conditions, in accordance with STANAG 2895 (-32°C to +55°C)
Ukraine Modernizes Russian Origin Mi-24 Helicopters

August 30, 2017 @ 12:53 PM

Ukraines state-owned Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant Aviakon has completed modernization of Russian-origin Mi-24 attack helicopters with domestic equipment for the countrys Armed Forces, the press service of the state-owned Ukroboronprom corporation said in a press release Tuesday. Dubbed Mi-24PU1, the new helicopter equipped with domestic EMS (Emergency medical services) and new voltage regulators designed to increase mobility of ground troops, providing them with fire support on the battlefield
SolAero Technologies Delivers Solar Wing For Bye's StratoAirNet UAV

August 30, 2017 @ 10:29 AM

SolAero Technologies Corp (SolAero) has delivered the first solar wing for Bye Aerospace's "StratoAirNet", a solar-electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). SolAero is integrating their advanced high-efficiency solar cell technologies on the graphite composite StratoAirNet wing using proprietary methods to maintain the critical laminar flow surface on the wing, the company announced Tuesday
New Russian Su-30SM Jet Fighters join Combat Aviation Regiment in Kursk region...

August 29, 2017 @ 04:44 AM

New 4+ Generation Sukhoi Su-30SM jet fighters have made a flight from the Irkutsk aviation plant to the Western MD to reinforce squadrons in the Kursk regions. The regiment has received two Su-30SM supermanoeuverable fighters
HAL Launches Production of Light Combat helicopter (LCH)

August 28, 2017 @ 09:37 AM

State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on Saturday launched the production of the 5.8 ton category Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) to fulfill an Indian MoD order for 15 helicopters
Human Error, Weather Caused US Marine Osprey Crash-landing In Japan’s Okinawa Island...

August 26, 2017 @ 09:16 AM

A V-22 Osprey aircraft that crash-landed off Japan's southern island of Okinawa in December last year was caused by weather conditions and human factors, according to the US military report. The report refutes various media claims about sustainability of the Ospreys, and a Japanese government source told the Mainichi Shimbun on August 23 that the government is set to release the full report soon, once it formally receives the document from the U
Steel Cut For Next US Navy Aircraft Carrier

August 26, 2017 @ 07:56 AM

Huntington Ingalls Industries has started advance construction work on the US Navy's third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier with the ceremonial cutting of a 35-ton steel plate of the project, CVN 80

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